Shihab Al-Din Suhrawardi Al-Maqtul on Categories

Aristotle is known to be the first to develop the category theory in the history of logic. There have been many discussions on the categories in the later periods. There were also those who developed different category theory from Aristotle. One of these names is Immanuel Kant. Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi al-Maqtul has an important place in Islamic thought. He is a Masha’i at the beginning of his thought adventure. He later developed the doctrine of mystic philosophy called is Ishraqi. Suhrawardi introduced important ideas in many issues, especially in philosophical topics such as logic, physics and metaphysics. It also has a authentic approach to categories. That is why we have studied Suhrawardi's views on the categories. In order to be able to comprehend his approach on this subject, we used the previous forms of explanation about the categories. As mentioned earlier, the subject of categories, which is the source of knowledge at the center, has been examined by many thinkers from Aristotle. The most intense discussion about categories is about which discipline they are the subject of. Some thinkers claim that it is the subject of logic, while some others think that the metaphysics of the categories are within the study are